Horseshoe.



N0. 680,80l. Paented Aug. 20, I90I. H. M. MGCHESLEY.

HRSESHUE.

(Application led Jan. 15, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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IIUGII M. MCOHESLEY, OF BEREA, Ol-IIO.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 680,801, dated August 20, 1901. Application filed January 15,1901. Serial No. 43,318. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH M. McCHnsLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berea, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in horseshoes,and more particularly to that style of shoe known as the detachable nailless type.

A primary object of the invention is to provide a preferred construction of shoe which may be readily attached to or detached from a holdin g-plate adapted to be secured directly to the hoof of an animal and to constitute a relatively permanent fixture.

y Another object of the invention is to provide the shoe proper and its holding-plate, respectively, with means adapted when used conjointly to secure in position beneath the central portion of the hoof a pad of any desirable relatively soft material, as leather, rubber, iibrous compositions, or the like.

A still further object of the invention embraces a novel securing means for detachably connecting the shoe to the supporting-plate.

Improved details in the construction and arrangement of the several parts of the construction will be apparent from the detailed description hereinafter when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof,and the appended claims.

When hereinafter referring more specifically to the drawings, like letters of reference will refer to corresponding parts in the several views.

In said drawings, Figure l is a bottom plan view of the shoe properly applied to the holding-plate and supporting apad therebetween. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the holdingplate. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the shoe and holder secured together.

A designates a holding plate of suitable :shape to conform to and adapted to be secured `directly to the hoof of an animal and to constitute a relatively permanent fixture, to which suitable shoes may be detachably secured as needed. This plate is provided in itsends with screw-threaded apertures a and turned-over projections or iingers a', both for purposes to be described.

The shoe proper is represented at B and comprises the two members h ZJ, pivotallysecured together at ZJ, so that the same may be free to open and close. Each of the members b is provided witha suitable number of calks h2, projecting from their lower surfaces, and one of said members has at its extreme forward end a turned-over projection or linger b3, similar' to the projections ce on the plate A.

The shoe is attached to the plate by spreading the two members b apart, passing the projection b3 through the cut-away portion a2 of the plate A,so as to overlie the upper surface of the same, as shown in Fig. 3, and the two members are then brought together' beneath the projections a', when screw-threaded bolts C, working in screw-threaded apertures in the ends of the shoe, may be screwed into the corresponding apertures o, in the holding-plate, and the shoe thereby locked against any lateral movement.

In order that the central portion of the hoof of the animal may have a padded. or soft support, I provide the inwardly and downwardly inclined Iianges D D', respectively, integral with the holdingplate and shoe proper, so arranged that before the shoe is secured in position a pad E may be inserted beneath the flanges D, and thereafter when the shoe is in position the flanges D will complete the holding means for such pad.

From the above description it will be Obvious that whenever one pad or shoe becomes worn or damaged the same may be conveniently replaced by an unskilled person. Inasmuch as the holding-plate is secured to the hoof by the ordinary horseshoe-nails and constitutes a relatively permanent iixture, as stated, all that is necessary to be done before removing either is to nnscrew the locking-nuts from engagement with the apertures a in the holding-plate.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new,and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination substantially as de- IOO scribed a holding-plate adapted to be secu red to thehoof of an animal and constitute a relatively permanent fixture, a shoe comprising two memberspivotally secured together and means for detachably securing the shoe to the holding-plate comprising engaging lingers on the shoe and plate, and looking-bolts adapted topass through registering screw-threaded apertures in the holding-plate and shoe, sub'- stantially as described.

2. In combination substantially as described, a holding-plate adapted to be secured to the hoof of an animal, a shoe comprising two members pivotally lsecured together, means for detachably connecting the shoe to the holdinglplataand means on the plate and the respective members of the shoe Vadapted to operate conjontly in supporting a pad.

3. In combination with a horseshoe, of a supporting-plate therefor adapted to be s ecured to the hoof of an animal, means for securing the shoe to the plate, and oppositelydisposed projecting 'flanges on the shoe and plate adapted to coperate in supporting a pad, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUGH M. MCCHESLEY.

fitnessesz M. A. SCHMIDT, A. I, HARRIS. 

